Dolorous vs Sorrow - What's the difference?

dolorous | sorrow |

As an adjective dolorous

is solemnly or ponderously sad.

As a noun sorrow is

(uncountable) unhappiness, woe.

As a verb sorrow is

to feel or express grief.

dolorous

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Solemnly or ponderously sad.

* 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:

Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,

Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,

Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.

* 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:

. . . Hell itself will pass away,

And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.

* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:

From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.

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* 2001 June 24, Stefan Kanfer, " Author, Teacher, Witness," Time :

As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.

sorrow

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Noun

(uncountable) unhappiness, woe

* Rambler

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

(countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Parting is such sweet sorrow .

Verb

(en verb)

To feel or express grief.

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:

‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

*, II.12:

It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.

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